Tool-using tools – Perceptions and misperceptions of generative AI (slides from my keynote for the Global AI Summit, 2025, at Bennett University, India) Here are the slides from the first of my two keynotes last week, Tool-using tools - Perceptions and misperceptions of generative AI. This one was…

Generative vs Degenerative AI (my ICEEL 2025 keynote slides) I gave my second keynote of the week last week (in person!) at the excellent ICEEL conference in Tokyo.  Here are the slides: Generative AI vs degenerative AI: steps towards the constructive transformation of education in the digital…

Paper: Cognitive Santa Claus Machines and the Tacit Curriculum This is my contribution to the inaugural issue of AACE's new journal of AI-Enhanced Learning, Cognitive Santa Claus Machines and the Tacit Curriculum. If the title sounds vaguely familiar, it might be because you might have seen my…

New open journal from AACE: AI-Enhanced Learning (with a paper from me) The Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education and Learning (AIEL), a diamond open-access journal published under the auspices of AACE and distributed worldwide through LearnTechLib has just launched its inaugural issue,…

Educational technologies and the synecdochic fallacy For a few minutes the other day I thought that I had invented a new kind of fallacy or, at least, a great term to describe it. Disappointingly, a quick search revealed that it was not only an old idea but one that has been independently invented…

Cognitive Santa Claus machines I've just submitted a journal paper (shameless plug: to AACE's AIEL, of which I am an associate editor) in which I describe generative AIs as cognitive Santa Claus machines. I don't know if it's original but the idea appeals to me. Whatever thought we ask for, genAIs…

Democratech: reflections on the human nature of blockchain At short notice I was invited to be guest of honour and keynote at Bennett University's International Conference on Blockchain for Inclusive and Representative Democracy  yesterday. I was not able to attend the entire conference - my…

Just a metatool? Some thoughts why generative AIs are not tools

We are (in part) our tools and they are (in part) us Here's a characteristically well-expressed and succinct summary of the complex nature of technologies, our relationships with them, and what that means for education by the ever-wonderful Tim Fawns. I like it a lot, and it expresses much what I…

Venturing into the Unknown: Critical Insights into Grey Areas and Pioneering Future Directions in Educational Generative AI Research | TechTrends The latest paper I can proudly add to my list of publications,  Venturing into the Unknown: Critical Insights into Grey Areas and Pioneering Future…

Slides from my TRU TPC keynote: “It’s a technology problem: How education doesn’t work and why we shouldn’t fix it” Here are the slides from my keynote at Thompson Rivers University's Teaching Practices Colloquium this morning. I quite like the mediaeval theme (thanks ChatGPT), which I created to…

Understanding collective stupidity in social computing systems Here are the slides from a talk I just gave to a group of grad students at AU in our ongoing seminar series, on the nature of collectives and ways we can use and abuse them. It's a bit of a sprawl covering some 30 odd years of a…

Published in JODDE – Learning: A technological perspective Dron, J. (2024). Learning: A technological perspective. Journal of Open, Distance, and Digital Education, 1(2), Article 2. My latest paper, Learning: A technological perspective, was published today in the (open) Journal of Open, Distance,…

How AI works for education: an interview with me for AACE Review Thanks to Stefanie Panke for some great questions and excellent editing in this interview with me for the AACE Review. The content is in fact the product of two discussions, one coming from student questions at the end of a talk that…

The collective ochlotecture of large language models: slides from my talk at CI.edu, 2024 Here are my slides from the 1st International Symposium on Educating for Collective Intelligence, last week, here is my paper on which it was based, and here is the video of the talk itself: You can find this…

New paper: The Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI: A Critical Collective Stance to Better Navigate the Future I'm… https://jondron.ca/new-paper-the-manifesto-for-teaching-and-learning-in-a-time-of-generative-ai-a-critical-collective-stance-to-better-navigate-the-future/

Slides from my ICEEL ’24 Keynote: “No Teacher Left Behind: Surviving Transformation” Here are the slides from from my keynote at the 8th International Conference on Education and E-Learning in… https://jondron.ca/slides-from-my-iceel-24-keynote-no-teacher-left-behind-surviving-transformation/

Announcing the First International Symposium on Educating for Collective Intelligence (and some thoughts on collective intelligence) jondron.ca/announcing-t...

How AI Teaches Its Children: slides and reflections from my keynote for AISUMMIT-2024 jondron.ca/how-ai-teach...

On the importance of place jondron.ca/on-the-impor...

Proctored exams have fallen to generative AI jondron.ca/proctored-ex...